nvidia graphic drivers using VMware Fusion on a macbook pro

Question

I have a macbook pro retina with a nvidia gt 650m video card.

I use VMware Fusion and i want to update the drivers. I downloaded 320.18-notebook-win8-win7-64bit-international-whql.exe

When i try to run the installer i get this error:

I did a lot of searching, the closest i came is this: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1159573

I'm not using bootcamp but that probably doesn't matter for the solution. Could it work? And more important, could it do any damage?

Or does someone know a better way?

Solution

The point of using a virtual machine is to present a virtual machine (disks, cpu, ram, USB and video) to the guest os.

That means there is a virtual video card for the guest OS ... and VmWare provided a driver for that card.

So .. from within the guest-os, there is indeed no NVidia card present..

Comments

[lexu]

Bootcamp is not a virtual machine (as I assume you know) .. but, yes, you can use VmWare Fusion to start your Bootcamp partition from within OS X. I've been doing that for some time...